Good stuff! Ex-Official at NASA Is Indicted

Subject: Good stuff! Ex-Official at NASA Is Indicted Sun Mar 08, 2009 5:15 am

A former top NASA official has been indicted on charges of steering $9.6 million in agency money to a consulting client.

The United States attorney’s office announced a three-count indictment on Friday against the former official, Courtney Stadd of Bethesda, Md., who had served as NASA’s chief of staff and White House liaison.

The indictment accuses Mr. Stadd of steering money from an earth science appropriation to Mississippi State University, which was paying him as a consultant. Mr. Stadd is also accused of lying to NASA ethics officials investigating the matter. He faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted on all three charges.

Mr. Stadd, who joined the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as chief of staff in 2001 and left the agency in 2003, served as President-elect George W. Bush’s NASA transition chief in 2000.

Mr. Stadd “was centrally involved in the organization and management of NASA,” said John Logsdon, a Smithsonian Institution space scholar.

“He was in many ways the White House representative to the NASA front office,” said Mr. Logsdon, a member of the NASA Advisory Council. “So he had a fair degree of influence.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/washington/08nasa.html?src=SkimUS

Good stuff! Ex-Official at NASA Is Indicted

Good stuff! Ex-Official at NASA Is Indicted

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